Wyoming Commute Time Map & Patterns

Commute Time Burden in Wyoming: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Wyoming spend about 26 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 110 hours, about 4.6 full days, spent commuting. That is 41% less time on the road than the US average of 22.4 minutes each way, a difference of 9.2 minutes.

Wyoming holds about 0.2% of US's population but accounts for roughly 0.1% of its total commuting time.

Working from home just 2 days a week in Wyoming would save about 44 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $1,369 at the same national wage assumption used above.

Area	One-Way Commute	Daily Round-Trip	Yearly Time Spent	Estimated Yearly Cost	Local Road Traffic (VPD)
Wyoming	13.2 min	26.5 min	110 hrs/yr	$3,422	263
US	22.4 min	44.8 min	187 hrs/yr	$5,790	1,355

The estimated yearly cost applies a single national rule of thumb (U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics average hourly earnings), not a measurement of wages in this area - treat it as a rough estimate, not a paycheck figure. Local road traffic counts, vehicles per day on non-highway roads, come from proprietary Ticon and TrafficZoom data.

Commute Time Map: Wyoming Counties

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On average, it takes 13.2 minutes to get to work in Wyoming. That's 41% shorter than the 22.4-minute U.S. average.

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The most common departure window is 07:30 AM – 07:59 AM, followed by 07:00 AM – 07:29 AM. Driving is the most common commute choice, followed by working from home. About 9.4% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Wyoming

• Car: 84.3%
• Worked at Home: 9.4%
• Walked: 3.6%
• Public Transportation: 0.9% unusually low
• Other: 0.8%
• Bicycle: 0.7%
• Motorcycle: 0.2%
• Taxi: < 0.1% unusually low

Public transit is unusually rare in Wyoming: 3.4 times less than the US average (0.9% vs 3.2%).

Taking a taxi is unusually rare in Wyoming: 6.5 times less than the US average (0.0% vs 0.3%).

Commute Mode Trends in Wyoming, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in Wyoming get to work, as a share of all workers aged 16 and over, across 16 U.S. Census Bureau American Community Survey (ACS) releases from 2009 to 2024. Each release is a 5-year estimate: the 2024 figures cover surveys taken from 2020 to 2024. Because neighboring releases share most of their survey years, the lines move gradually, and a sudden change such as the rise of remote work in 2020 spreads across several releases. Hover over or tap a line to highlight it, and use the legend to show or hide a mode. Driving starts hidden so the smaller modes stay readable.

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Show commute mode data by year

Year	Car	Worked at Home	Walked	Public Transportation	Other	Bicycle	Motorcycle	Taxi
2009	87.4%	5.1%	4.1%	1.4%	0.8%	1.0%	0.3%	0.0%
2010	87.7%	5.0%	3.8%	1.4%	0.7%	1.1%	0.3%	0.0%
2011	87.6%	4.8%	3.9%	1.5%	0.8%	1.1%	0.3%	0.0%
2012	87.7%	5.0%	3.6%	1.6%	0.9%	0.9%	0.2%	0.0%
2013	87.8%	4.7%	3.8%	1.7%	1.0%	0.9%	0.2%	0.0%
2014	87.8%	4.7%	3.8%	1.6%	1.0%	0.9%	0.3%	0.0%
2015	87.9%	4.4%	3.9%	1.6%	1.0%	0.9%	0.2%	0.0%
2016	87.6%	4.8%	4.1%	1.5%	0.9%	0.8%	0.2%	0.0%
2017	88.1%	4.6%	4.0%	1.3%	0.9%	0.8%	0.2%	0.1%
2018	87.6%	5.2%	3.9%	1.3%	0.8%	0.9%	0.2%	0.1%
2019	87.7%	5.4%	3.8%	1.3%	0.8%	0.8%	0.2%	0.1%
2020	87.4%	6.1%	3.7%	1.0%	0.7%	0.8%	0.2%	0.1%
2021	86.9%	6.8%	3.5%	0.9%	0.9%	0.9%	0.1%	0.0%
2022	86.0%	7.7%	3.5%	0.9%	0.8%	0.9%	0.2%	0.0%
2023	85.5%	8.5%	3.4%	0.9%	0.7%	0.8%	0.2%	0.0%
2024	84.3%	9.4%	3.6%	0.9%	0.8%	0.7%	0.2%	0.0%

Driving was the most common way to get to work in every release from 2009 to 2024. Its share peaked in 2017 at 88.1%. Overall it fell from 87.4% in 2009 to 84.3% in 2024, down 3.1 percentage points. It has fallen in each of the last 5 releases.

Working from home gained the most ground in Wyoming: its share of workers rose from 5.1% in 2009 to 9.4% in 2024, up 4.3 percentage points. Most of that increase, 4.0 points, came in the releases after 2019, which include the pandemic years.

Commute Start Times in Wyoming

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Wyoming?

The bars show when commuters in Wyoming leave home for work, as a share of everyone who commutes (people who work from home are not counted), from the 2024 ACS 5-year estimates. The thin violet marks show the U.S. for comparison. Hover over or tap a row for the exact numbers.

12:00-4:59 AM	12:00-4:59 AM Wyoming5.8% The U.S.5.5%	5.8%
5:00-5:29 AM	5:00-5:29 AM Wyoming4.3% The U.S.4.0%	4.3%
5:30-5:59 AM	5:30-5:59 AM Wyoming6.2% The U.S.4.9%	6.2%
6:00-6:29 AM	6:00-6:29 AM Wyoming7.8% The U.S.8.7%	7.8%
6:30-6:59 AM	6:30-6:59 AM Wyoming10.4% The U.S.9.4%	10.4%
7:00-7:29 AM	7:00-7:29 AM Wyoming15.1% The U.S.14.4%	15.1%
7:30-7:59 AM	7:30-7:59 AM Wyoming16.2% The U.S.11.9%	16.2%
8:00-8:29 AM	8:00-8:29 AM Wyoming9.7% The U.S.11.5%	9.7%
8:30-8:59 AM	8:30-8:59 AM Wyoming4.2% The U.S.5.5%	4.2%
9:00-9:59 AM	9:00-9:59 AM Wyoming5.6% The U.S.6.8%	5.6%
10:00-10:59 AM	10:00-10:59 AM Wyoming2.3% The U.S.3.1%	2.3%
11:00-11:59 AM	11:00-11:59 AM Wyoming1.5% The U.S.1.5%	1.5%
12:00-3:59 PM	12:00-3:59 PM Wyoming5.6% The U.S.6.8%	5.6%
4:00-11:59 PM	4:00-11:59 PM Wyoming5.3% The U.S.6.1%	5.3%

Wyoming The U.S. Source: U.S. Census Bureau, ACS 5-year estimates

The busiest time to head out in Wyoming is 7:30-7:59 AM, when 16.2% of commuters leave home, compared with 11.9% across the U.S.. Early starts are more common than in the U.S.: 16.3% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 14.4% there. The morning rush is more concentrated than in the U.S.: 51.4% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 47.1% there. About 1 in 5 commuters (20.3%) leave at 9 AM or later, which usually points to shift work, flexible hours or part-time jobs.

When people leave matters as much as how far they go. Rush-hour traffic shrinks how much ground a 20-minute trip covers, so a trade area drawn as a simple circle often takes in neighborhoods that customers or staff would never drive from and misses others that are an easy trip. A drive-time zone, also called an isochrone, outlines every place within a set number of minutes of an address, which makes it the more honest way to size a store's catchment, a hiring area or the commute from a new home.

See it for yourself on the interactive map: click any spot in Wyoming, pick a 5, 10, 15 or 30-minute drive and see the local demographics of the people who live within that exact drive time.

Is Wyoming Waking Up Earlier? Typical Departure Time, 2009-2024

Each line follows the typical (median) departure time: the moment by which half of commuters have already left home. Higher on the chart means a later start. Setting Wyoming next to the U.S. shows whether local mornings are drifting earlier or later than everyone else's. The figures span 16 ACS 5-year releases, so changes build up gradually rather than jumping from one year to the next.

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Show typical departure times by year

Year	Wyoming	United States
2009	7:33 AM	7:37 AM
2010	7:32 AM	7:38 AM
2011	7:32 AM	7:38 AM
2012	7:30 AM	7:38 AM
2013	7:30 AM	7:39 AM
2014	7:30 AM	7:39 AM
2015	7:29 AM	7:38 AM
2016	7:31 AM	7:38 AM
2017	7:31 AM	7:38 AM
2018	7:32 AM	7:37 AM
2019	7:31 AM	7:37 AM
2020	7:32 AM	7:37 AM
2021	7:32 AM	7:37 AM
2022	7:32 AM	7:37 AM
2023	7:31 AM	7:38 AM
2024	7:31 AM	7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Wyoming were on the road by 7:31 AM, 3 minutes earlier than in 2009 (7:33 AM). Commuters in Wyoming now leave 7 minutes earlier than the typical American commuter (7:38 AM).

How does Wyoming's commute time compare?

Metric	Wyoming	US Average
Avg. Commute Time	13.2 min	22.4 min
Work From Home	9.4%	15.0%
Walked	3.6%	2.4%
Public Transit	0.9%	3.2%

The average commute time in Wyoming is 13.2 minutes, shorter than the 22.4 minutes in US.

0.9% commute by public transit, lower than the 3.2% in US. 3.6% commute by walking, higher than the 2.4% in US.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau